The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-04-28
AMALGAM OF RACES.
SPECULATIVE VIEW OF THE So
LlDlFlCATloN OF THE RACES.

thousands OF Years Hence When All
Weakness Shall Have Been Elimin-
ated.
One of the subjects which excites the atten
ton of thinkers is the probable outcome of the
commingling of races throughout the world.
The result is, of course, purely matter of
speculation, as there are no data whatever
from which may be deduced an exact conclu-
sion. There are those who lean to the opinion
that in the course of many centuries, all race
distinction will disappear, and a human
amalgam, homogeneous in its qualities, will
take the place of the present interminabls
variety.
This country has more interest in this ques
ton than any other. 1t is an enormous reser~
voir into which are being poured streams
from all the racial sources. The homo
geneous amalgam, if ever formed, will crys-
tallize on this continent; and here will be
located the ultimate results of race admixt-
ure. What will be the nature of this COM
position? 1t is not thing whose occurrence
is so near that we have a personal interest in
it; nevertheless, the inspirations OF curiosity
are such that we cannot help glancing into
the remote future with the hope that we may
get q glimpse of the product of the process of
distillation. One may not see anything with
precision at this distance, but the imagination
may discover condition of things which, if
not exact, may at least be characterized by
curious qualities
THE FINAL soLIDIFICATIoN.
The believers in the final qualification Of
the various races conclude, of course, that the
distinctions now prevailing between white,
negro and Indian in this country will be OBJ
liberated. The processes of absorption will
not only necessarily wipe out these three
races as such, but they will include and dis
pose of the diverse natonalities which already,
in the presence of German, Irish, French,
Scandinavian, Spanish, Italian and the like
elements, form so large a portion of this
country. If such a work shall be done, ii
will be one of the grandest ever undertaken by
nature. Nothing in the labors even of the
chemistry which has constructed universes
from few simple gases would be the equal
in magnitude and importance of this colossal
effort.
If the teachings in regard to heredity are
reliable, then we may certain that in the
final composition there will be no essential
traits now in existence that will be wanting.
In more attl nuated form, but nevertheless
existent and tangible, will be strain of
Yankee shrewdness, of British obstinacy, of
Italian subtlety, Indian craft African gross
ness, German transcendentalism, French
suavity, with possibly faint of the tastes of
the camibal and something of the coarse
gusuatory tendencies Of the Esquimaux. 1t
is logical in view of the teachings of modern
science to conclude that the stronger of these
and tl,ot u,iin nf
them will over become extinct many will be-
come merely rudimentary, modifying to a
very limited degree the characteristics of the
whole. The littest will survive, and hence we
may frame a guess as to the rough outlines
Of the compact result.
SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST.
Grouping the more potent of the race quail
ties which will be likely to survive in recog-
niZable form, we may construct the man Of
the far future as one who has lost the hue of
white which now dominates civilization. The
blood of the African will darken the cheek
of the coming man until there will come
time when the existence of races of whites
will have passed into the regions of the
legendary. His will not be the tint of the
muatto but the result of the spreading on
white ground OF mixture black, yellow,
rel, and other darksome hues, and which
i'll be a rich bronze, equally removed from
The repellant black and the effeminate palor
Of the ruling races, Exposed to the desiccat-
i've influence of this climate, he will be thin
ner than the average man Of the continent at
this time, and will possess an endurance, a
longevity, healthfulnesS far above those of
the present period. The extent of the life of
this man will he far above the century, for in
the evolution of qualities the more robust
will survive.
He will very largely have increased the
size and value of the human brain, and hence
will occupy an immeasureably higher intel
lectual station. The political and social
experiments and the mechanical achievements
of period like the present one will seem to
nim-if there shall remain any record of
what we have done--as crude and barbarous
in the extreme. He will have mastered the
most important secrets Of nature, and, aided
by this knowledge, will be able to WELD
powers and command results which we now
would ascribe as the especial property of ON
impotence. he will have bridled the cyclone
and put harness on the earthquake and the
storm. Containing in himself all the better
qualities strained through thousand centu-
ries. with the evil, the weakness, of the
present human nature eliminated he will be a
god.--Chicago Times